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13 unusual facts about The Vagina Monologues


Bernie Chan

SHe later moved on to plays like "Ubu Roi', playing a bipolar girl in "Otak Tak Centre" and the lead role in "The Odd Couple". In 2008, Chan joined The Amazing Race Asia 3 partnered with her brother, Henry. They represented Malaysia and came in 5th place. In Singapore Bernie was in Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" in 2008 and in 2009, the Asian premiere of the musical "Victor/Victoria" which starred Laura Fygi.

Cher Calvin

She has participated in The Vagina Monologues to help stop violence against women around the world for the Center for the Pacific Asian Family.

Connie May Fowler

In 2007, Fowler performed at New York City’s The Player's Club with actresses Kathleen Chalfont, Penny Fuller, and others in a performance based on The Other Woman, an anthology that includes Fowler’s essay “The Uterine Blues.” In 2003, Fowler performed in a charity benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues with Jane Fonda and Rosie Perez.

Esther McVey

McVey has debated at the Oxford Union and took part in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

Fanny Mikey

In 1976, she moved to Bogotá, when she created the Fundación Teatro Nacional (National Theatre Foundation), an organization to promote the arts in Colombia and that featured adaptations of famous plays (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, The Vagina Monologues, and Closer) among others.

Giovannie Pico

As an activist in the area of domestic violence awareness and prevention, she has donated her time by directing benefit productions of Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.

Susy Schultz

Schultz was also during this time a member of the 2002 Chicago celebrity cast of The Vagina Monologues.

The Vagina Monologues

The play gained popularity through a word of mouth campaign that culminated with a performance at Madison Square Garden in 2001, which featured Melissa Etheridge and Whoopi Goldberg performing segments of the play.

Individualist feminist Wendy McElroy agreed, stating that the play "equates men with 'the enemy' - heterosexual love with violence".

Ugandan English

The Broadway play The Vagina Monologues had a brief, but notorious, appearance on the Ugandan stage before being banned by government censors.

Vagina loquens

The taking vagina theme is the central trope of The Vagina Monologues.

Wole Oguntokun

Oguntokun was commissioned by the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) to head the writing team that adapted Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues for the Nigerian populace.

Youth for Western Civilization

YWC members have engaged in a range of activities, including protesting a performance of The Vagina Monologues, and bringing speakers such as Tom Tancredo, Robert Spencer, and Bay Buchanan to university campuses.


Frederique van der Wal

In 2003, Van der Wal appeared in a stage production of The Vagina Monologues (Washington D.C.), and has performed in feature films by acclaimed directors Barry Sonnenfeld ("The Wild, Wild West"), Woody Allen ("Celebrity"), James Toback ("Two Girls & A Guy") and Wim Wenders.

Rain Pryor

She performed in the Los Angeles productions of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues with Nora Dunn of Saturday Night Live fame and Charlene Tilton, Joan by Linda Chambers, in which she portrayed Joan of Arc; Cookin' With Gas, with the Groundlings improvisation troupe, The Exonerated with critically acclaimed actor Aidan Quinn and The Who's Tommy at the La Jolla Playhouse.